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THE "NAVAL MANOEUVRES."

There appears to be a general disposition to overrate the importance of the war game now playing at Newport. To describe the operations as "naval manoeuvres" may be sufficiently correct, but it conveys to the average mind the idea of attack and defense carried out on the scale of the naval manoeuvres of the British fleet in and around the home ports.

September 26, 1900

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